Bella knew very well that the reason why Kevin called her upstairs was nothing more than for the necklace she was wearing around her neck, and it turned out that her guess was right.
“Who told you to wear this necklace?” He looked chilled and questioned.
“Wasn’t that meant to be for me?”
Well, he smirked, “You’re so narcissistic. What makes you think this necklace is for you?”
“By feel.”
“Don’t you know that your feelings are as bad as yourself?”
“If that’s not for me, who are you going to give it to?”
Kevin coldly replied, “It’s none of your business and it’s not for you anyway. Put it well right now.”
Bella was angry, hooked it, walked to the trash can, and finally asked him, “Do you really want me to throw away your gift?”
“Don’t be narcissistic. I never give a valuable gift to a person I don’t love.”
Kevin snatched her necklace and strode to the window, threw it out the window.
After that, they stopped saying a word. Kevin angrily slammed the door and left. Bella stood in front of the window and watched his car drive away. She turned and ran down the stairs to the green lawn outside, leaning down to earnestly look for it.
The lawn was extensive, and she searched for a long time, but fortunately, she still found the necklace. But she didn’t dare to wear it around her neck again, but locked it in a drawer.
In the evening, Kevin did not come home. Until dinner he did not come back. Businessmen having a social intercourse was inevitable, and Bella did not find it strange.
More than ten o’clock at night, she just went to bed, and suddenly heard a crash in the next bedroom. She was confused and opened the door to look. It was actually Kevin fell on the floor.
She panicked and went over to help him up, smelling the strong smell of alcohol on him, “Why did you drink so much?”
Kevin disgustedly shook off her hand, “Don’t touch me.”
He stumbled towards the bed and almost fell again with a stumble. Bella moved forward again out of instinct to help him, but once again he refused, “Get away, get away from me!”
She said angrily, “I know you hate me. But I’m your wife, I should do my wife’s duty.”
“Wife’s duty?”
Kevin smiled mockingly, “Is it a wife’s duty to cheat on her husband and date another man?”
“I’ve already explained that to you. It’s not what you think it is.”
“Oh yes, you explained that the guy named Louis and helped you, so you invited him to dinner out of gratitude…”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Bella thought he finally understood, but he didn’t, “If you need help, you can call me. I’ve got the money and connections. You call me and I’ll fix it for you. Why do you have to go to another man?”
“At that time, you were on a business trip…”
“If I don’t travel, will you call me? I’m afraid I’ll still be looking for another man!”
Bella was a little depressed by his question and continued to patiently explain, “I didn’t ask him, but he took the initiative to help me.”
“Are you saying that to prove how popular you are with men? And yes, to have me pick you at the first meeting shows what a great woman you are, easily fooling men.”
“Are you happy to humiliate me?”
“That’s just what you think, but I’m just talking about the facts, and even though I’ve been divorced six times, you’re definitely the worst of my several wives…”
“Yeah, I suck, I’m bad. You hate me harder. I don’t care!”
“Women like you who misbehave like this, make men heartbroken. You are the same with them.”
Snap…
Bella couldn’t stand it any longer and slapped him, saying with tearful eyes, “It’s fine no matter how you humiliate me, but I will never tolerate you humiliating my mother. My mother is a dancer, but not whatever goods you are talking about!”
Kevin looked at her in shock, “You dare to hit me.”
“After living for thirty years and never being slapped, I’m just to let you know that all people are equal. Don’t think that you are from a noble background and how pure your soul is. In my opinion, people who don’t know how to respect others are worse than a gigolo in a nightclub.”
After saying that, Bella strode towards her secret room, but was stopped by Kevin, “You tell me clearly, do you refer me as a gigolo?”
“You’re just pretending you don’t understand. Kevin, and I’m just wondering, if you don’t love me, then why do you care who’s with me? Have you been betrayed by a woman?”
Kevin’s face was suddenly pale. He gritted his teeth and said, “Don’t think that if you are a woman, I won’t harm you. I’m warning you for the last time. Don’t challenge my tolerance.”
“Do I guess right?” Bella admitted that she did it on purpose to deliberately to piss him off, “If I’m really right that you’ve been betrayed by a woman, then you deserve it!”
With a thud, Kevin smashed his fist down, but not on Bella’s body, but on the wall behind her. Suddenly, he broke the skin, and blood oozed out. Bella was shocked by his overreaction, and carefully reached out to inspect his wounds, but he roughly pushed her away, “Before I intend to hurt you, disappear immediately. ”
Bella had never seen Kevin so angry before. He was so raged. Forehead veins exposed. Both fists clenched.
She panicked and retreated to her room, closed the door. Her heart thumped, with mixed feeling that the seemingly frightening man was actually more pitiful than anyone else.
Leaning her back against the door and listening carefully to the movement outside, she vaguely seemed to hear a moan of pain, she was unsure and put her ear close to the door panel, quickly determined that it was not her illusion.
She opened the door and ran out, but was stunned when she saw the scene in front of her. Kevin huddled by the corner, his eyes dull, his face pale, his forehead dripping with cold sweat, his two hands even more unconsciously pinching his arms, and his white shirt had been stained with blood.
“Kevin, what’s wrong with you?”
Bella trembled and crouched in front of him, shaking him vigorously, only to be startled to discover that he was so weak…
“Don’t come near me.”
Kevin painfully pushed her aside and said with forbearance, “Get out, get out right now!”
“I’m not going to leave you alone. I’m going to call for someone.”
Bella climbed up and was about to walk out, but was stopped by Kevin, who growled angrily, “Who asked you to mind your own business? Get out at once!”
“Don’t ask me to disappear at every turn. I won’t disappear now even if you kill me.”
She stubbornly ran out, knocking hard on her in-laws’ door, “Dad, Mom, get up, hurry up…”
Blanche came out in a dress and asked in a panic, “What’s wrong?”
“Quickly go and see Kevin, he seems to be very unwell now.”
As soon as Bella finished, there was a crackling sound. Blanche was so anxious and ran with her husband into Kevin’s room. Looking at porcelain tiles on the floor, it was Kevin who had smashed the antique vase.
“Get the medicine.”
Blanche anxiously commanded Bella, who had already panicked, “Medicine? What medicine?”
“In the middle drawer.”
The old couple forced Kevin down on the bed, took the medicine from Bella’s hand, poured out two pieces into his mouth. Slowly, Kevin’s mood stabilized. He no longer did self-abuse, and had the urge to smash things.
Bella was terrified, and woodenly stared at the sleeping man who ate the medicine. She had mixed feelings, and wanted to ask Blanche what was going on, but found Blanche shedding tears and Patrick looking grieved. So she cared their feelings and didn’t ask, no matter how puzzled she was.
“Mom, don’t be sad, he, he should be fine.”
Bella carefully consoled, afraid that saying something wrong to make her even sadder.
Blanche shed tears for a long time before she got up and huskily said to Bella, “Follow me.”
She followed Blanche to the guest room next door and closed the door. Blanche tearfully held her hand and said apologetically, “I’m sorry. I hid something from you before the wedding.”
“What was it?”
“Wait for me for a moment.”
Blanche went out, leaving Bella alone in the house, and her intuition told her that what Blanche was about to say must be related to Kevin hating women.
A moment later, Blanche returned, with a photo in her hand, “Take a look.”
Bella took it and scrutinized the pretty woman in the photo, completely different from her, very cute and with a sunny smile.
“She is?”
“Her name is Freya. She is a woman my son once loved very, very much, and they almost got married three years ago. But on her wedding day, she abandoned the groom who was waiting for her in the auditorium, ran away with another man, and was never heard from again.”
“Abandoned? You mean this woman abandoned Kevin?”
“Yes, and it was the day of the wedding, a disgrace to our superior’s family and the beginning of my son’s nightmare.”
“Why is that? Doesn’t she love him?”
“My son wants to know this more than you do. To make matters worse, the man who left with Freya was my own nephew, Kevin’s own cousin. His name was Conrad. Before he left with Freya, he and Kevin were very close. Kevin treated him like his own brother. But on that day, all good things were destroyed. His closest brother took the woman he loved the most. What could be more cruel than that, two people he trusted the most betrayed him at the same time…”